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Publicatie Laka-bibliotheek:
High-Priced and Dangerous: Nuclear Power Is Not an Option for the Climate-Friendly Energy Mix (2019)

Auteur	DIW, Wealer, Bauer, Göke, C.von Hirschhausen, Kemfert
	6-01-2-16-79.pdf
Datum	juli 2019
Classificatie	6.01.2.16/79 (KE & BROEIKAS - WEL/NIET OPLOSSING + SCENARIO'S)
Opmerking	Online available (also in German)
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The debate on effective climate protection is heating up in Germany and the rest of 
the world. Nuclear energy is being touted as “clean” energy. Given the circumstances,
the present study analyzed the historical, current, and future costs and risks of 
nuclear energy. The findings show that nuclear energy can by no means be called 
“clean” due to radioactive emissions, which will endanger humans and the natural 
environment for over one million years. And it harbors the high risk of 
proliferation. An empirical survey of the 674 nuclear power plants that have ever
been built showed that private economic motives never played a role. Instead 
military interests have always been the driving force behind their construction. 
Even ignoring the expense of dismantling nuclear power plants and the long-term 
storage of nuclear waste, private economy-only investment in nuclear power plant 
would result in high losses— an average of five billion euros per nuclear power 
plant, as one financial simulation revealed. In countries such as China and 
Russia, where nuclear power plants are still being built, private investment does
not play a role either. Nuclear power is too expensive and dangerous; therefore it
should not be part of the climate-friendly energy mix of the future.